But they also perfected innovative technologies like metalworking and animal husbandry well before the rest of the world. Spurious linguistic evidence was used to substantiate claims that ancient civilizations like the Hittites and Sumerians were actually Turks. Turkish scholars went on to suggest that all human language was originally derived from Turkish. The map is quite striking , and an undeniable tribute to Ottoman cartographic skill.
Which offers a pretty good reminder of where all this crazy history was coming from. In a memoir, Inan relates once reading in a French geography book that as members of the "yellow race," Turks had a genotype that relegated them to a "secondary status" in European thinking.
Upset, she asked Ataturk if this was right. We need to work on this. Many saw his narratives about Turkic scientific greatness as a necessary part of building national pride and unity after a century of military humiliation at the hands of the West. If Turks believed their people invented science, there was no shame in embracing Western technology.
Instead, Islamists like the president try to crudely appropriate that legacy — except, of course, evolution — while constantly boasting about opening new technical schools and colleges. These efforts range from serious studies of Ottoman gunpowder factories to scholarly, if a touch desperate, works about an Ottoman watchmaker whose work was so mind-blowingly good that it even impressed a visiting Swiss.
Both were immeasurably wealthy superpowers in the 15th and 16th centuries, impoverished second-tier powers for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, and then, just in a last few decades, dynamic industrial economies likely to keep growing despite clouds on the horizon. A politician with greater appreciation of metaphor — or reality — might have been content to draw a more modest lesson from this about Islamic history. Never mind that many Turks would agree with both, combining nationalism and religion to argue that the Turkish version of Islam is uniquely tolerant.
In forming the Alliance of Civilizations, both Turkey and Spain were happy to overlook the fact that the Umayyad and Ottoman eras each ended in a frenzy of distinctly intolerant sectarian violence. Turkish Americans are organized under social, professional and cultural associations across the United States. Together they represent the voice of a growing and diverse community. Turkish Americans proudly celebrate their heritage and share it with their fellow Americans.
Turkish cultural festivals in major cities across the United States bring a taste of Turkey annually to tens of thousands of Americans. Turkish Americans are model immigrants. It is important for policy makers and media to adopt a responsible attitude to establish understanding and tolerance between host countries and immigrants. The policy makers and media should refrain from statements and attitudes that would exacerbate xenophobia, discrimination and Islamophobia.
Confidence between migrants and the host society should also be improved. In this context, the Turkish Government closely follows the conditions of the Turkish community to learn their mother tongue. To this end, Turkey appoints, in cooperation with host countries, teachers for Turkish language and culture. Religious officers are assigned be the Presidency of Religious Affairs to provide religious services to the Turkish community and help them perform their religious duties.
Low employment rate is a major issue for the Turkish community abroad. Having a good command of local language contributes to educational success of the Turkish people and increases their chances of employment. The importance of higher education and vocational training is emphasized on every occasion. Legal Advisors working at the Turkish Embassies and Consulate Generals since provide Turkish citizens living abroad with free legal assistance on a variety of issues and problems, primarily any kind of discrimination they may face.
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